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					<dc:description>This order provides for the establishment and constitution of a special health and social services agency, to be known as the Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency, for the purposes of carrying out such functions, in relation to the postgraduate education and training of doctors and dentists, as the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety may direct in accordance with Article 4(1) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Special Agencies) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990.</dc:description>
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<Text>Any officer of the Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education who immediately before the date upon which this order comes into operation is employed by that body shall be transferred to the Agency on the date of the coming into operation of this order and the contract of employment between each such officer and the Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education shall be modified so as to substitute the Agency as the employer.</Text>
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